Today is World Meteorology Day and this year we are celebrating the ocean. The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and influences earth’s weather and climate. Of course, most Australian’s love the ocean, beach holidays and if you are lucky enough you might have an ocean view from your house. But how does it […]
The NSW floods have been declared a natural disaster with the worst flooding since 1990 expected to inundate the Hawksbury-Nepean basin in Sydney’s west. Over 18,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in NSW, as today delivers the 5th consecutive day of heavy rainfall for NSW and the 4th for Sydney. The heavy and […]
To many Australian’s delight, renewable energy is booming across Australia. Rooftop solar is regularly installed for households and solar and wind farms are popping up everywhere. South Australia (SA) has seen a major solar and wind farm boom in the last few years with 35% of South Australian households having solar panels installed. In fact, […]
Coming into the 2020/21 tropical cyclone seasons, all signs were pointing towards an above-average number of cyclones in the Australian region. So far this season, this hasn’t eventuated. So what happened? The tropics have actually been very active this season with 17 tropical lows generating widespread rainfall and strong winds across northern Australia. At times, […]
It has been a cloudy and rainy year thus far for Sydney, with 28 of the 55 calendar days recording rainfall. This unusual summer has seen more days of rainfall than not. The wet weather is set to continue, with large multi-day rainfall accumulations predicted for the central and northern NSW coast from today through […]
After a well sought after monsoon break, northern Australia may see an increase in rain and thunderstorm activity, as well as an elevated risk of tropical cyclone development. There are three systems that we are keeping a close eye on, the first low pressure system that is forecast to develop tomorrow in the northwestern Coral […]
The tropics across northern Australia have certainly been active in the past month due to a vigorous monsoon period. Numerous low pressure systems have developed within the monsoon trough over Northern Australia, bringing widespread heavy rainfall to the tropics. Isolated areas across northern Australia received 400-600mm of rainfall during January, which in parts was the […]
Heatwaves in the National Electricity Market (NEM) are often generated by slow moving high pressure systems, which drag warm and dry air from the interior of the country into the NEM. Tropical cyclones off the northwest shelf of Australia is something to watch out for when forecasting the risk of heatwaves. Tropical cyclones off the […]
Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne experienced their cloudiest week in at least four years (week ending the 4th of January 2021). Last week saw the first cyclone of the season Imogen developing in the Gulf of Carpentaria, feeding moisture into a deep trough lying through central Australia. The trough and tropical moisture combined to generate days […]
Australia’s tropical cyclone season is officially underway, but we may not see much activity for few months yet. The season runs from November to April, and for mining operators and businesses across northern Australia, 2026-27 is shaping up to be a season where the headline numbers and the real risk may not line up. On […]
A positive Indian Ocean Dipole is underway, but this one is unlikely to deliver the textbook dry spring and summer that businesses have come to expect from the pattern. The Bureau of Meteorology officially declared a positive IOD on Tuesday, October 27, which typically like El Niño can cause drier and warmer conditions over parts of […]
Waters off Indonesia have cooled in recent weeks, an indication that a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event could be developing. It’s an important climate driver for Australia, and it could shape rainfall and temperatures heading into summer, with flow-on effects for farmers, energy and other industries. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? The IOD […]
Leonora, WA, had its wettest September day on record earlier this month. Three weeks later, more than 1.3 million lightning pulses were detected within 800 km of the town in 48 hours. Why is a stalled trough delivering storms to mining country, and what it could mean for operations? The DTN Total Lightning Network detected […]
